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Speaker 1: Rainbow Crimes with hopefully some Unicorn Justice.
Speaker 2: Hey guys, it's me CJ. To be honest, I didn't
Speaker 2: think i'd be able to get this minisod ready and
Speaker 2: out on time. And I feel a little bad because
Speaker 2: I'm not able to get it out at least ten
Speaker 2: to twelve hours early like I usually do for my patrons.
Speaker 2: But at least it'll still be ad free for my patrons.
Speaker 2: Camping was a lot of fun. It was a lot
Speaker 2: of work, just getting ready to go, trying to remember everything,
Speaker 2: packing up the cars, unpacking the car when we got there,
Speaker 2: setting up camp, and then three days later breaking camp down,
Speaker 2: packing up the cards again, and driving home, all with
Speaker 2: three dogs to watch at the same time. It was
Speaker 2: also super cold out when the sun went down, even
Speaker 2: with a fire and our fire pit, but in our tent,
Speaker 2: which was a small two person tent, Jack and I
Speaker 2: would cuddle up at night to keep warm. The first night,
Speaker 2: the kids and I played a drinking game called King's
Speaker 2: Cup with playing cards each card had a different rule
Speaker 2: and it was so much fun. We laughed a lot.
Speaker 2: The food we cooked was really yummy. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: why camping food always tastes so good. My daughter's boyfriend
Speaker 2: cooked up this wagoose steak over the fire pit the
Speaker 2: second night. It was so tender it melted in your mouth.
Speaker 2: And my daughter made veggie skewers with squash, onion, mushrooms,
Speaker 2: and bell peppers. It was a great beast. I did
Speaker 2: mostly clean up and run to the dumpster with our trash.
Speaker 2: The dogs got to play in the river that was
Speaker 2: right behind us, and it was our favorite part of
Speaker 2: the whole trip. The second night, I hid some Easter
Speaker 2: eggs with candy and lottery tickets around our campsite, and
Speaker 2: the kids took a nighttime Easter egg hunt. They liked that. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we had a really great time and Jack is now
Speaker 2: an experienced camping dog. When we got home, unloaded, did
Speaker 2: fifteen or so loads of laundry. We just relaxed and
Speaker 2: didn't do much of anything besides veg out in front
Speaker 2: of TV shows and play video games for a couple days.
Speaker 2: But I thought today Thursday now that I'm feeling a
Speaker 2: little more rested, I should look into a case and
Speaker 2: try to get it ready for a minisode. So let's
Speaker 2: get on that. This minisode comes to us from the
Speaker 2: UK in twenty twenty one. But I would like to
Speaker 2: forewarn you after five years there's been no resolve to it,
Speaker 2: and I believe the reason for that can be attributed
Speaker 2: to shoddy police work and biases by them about the
Speaker 2: LGBTQ community. London's Metropolitan Police is the same police force
Speaker 2: that were dismissive about the victims of gay serial killer
Speaker 2: Stephen Port just six years earlier. Nineteen year old Edward
Speaker 2: Corns was very excited to have been accepted into the
Speaker 2: history program at University College in London. His parents dropped
Speaker 2: him off at his dorm on Monday, October eleventh, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one. Ed was a straight A student. He was
Speaker 2: his mom's best friend. They used to talk about anything
Speaker 2: and everything, and the boy could make her laugh, so
Speaker 2: I'm sure the farewell for now was bittersweet for the
Speaker 2: both of them. Never did Ed's mom or dad think
Speaker 2: after they dropped him off at school, Ed would be dead.
Speaker 2: Two days later, in the early hours of Wednesday, October thirteenth,
Speaker 2: Ed left the campus and reportedly by other students, he
Speaker 2: was staggering and drunk. After a night out outside on
Speaker 2: the campus, he bumped into fifty five year old Matthew Butler.
Speaker 2: This man invited Ed to a party at his friend,
Speaker 2: fifty seven year old Ian Casimir's basement hotel room in
Speaker 2: King's Crossing, but first they took an uber to Matthew's
Speaker 2: drug dealer to score some drugs. This all happened right
Speaker 2: around three am. Ed's toxicology report showed that he had
Speaker 2: consumed a lot of alcohol, and I mean a lot,
Speaker 2: more than three times the limit to be able to
Speaker 2: get behind the will of a vehicle. It was enough
Speaker 2: to impair his reasoning and judgment making skills for sure,
Speaker 2: and from the sound of it, it also affected his
Speaker 2: balance and and his ability to walk. He also tested
Speaker 2: positive for meth in GHB gamma hydruxibutyrate, which we've talked
Speaker 2: about before another episodes. It's a date rape drug. The
Speaker 2: party that Ed was invited to was a sex party
Speaker 2: with these two much older men that he didn't know,
Speaker 2: men who were old enough to know that they should
Speaker 2: have taken care of Ed when he appeared to have
Speaker 2: been Odean men who were old enough to call for
Speaker 2: help at the first sign of Ed having symptoms of odeine.
Speaker 2: But instead of helping Ed, these men put his boxer
Speaker 2: shorts back on to him backwards, mind you, and they waited.
Speaker 2: These men waited until around eleven am in the morning,
Speaker 2: hours after Ed had died to call for emergency services. Initially,
Speaker 2: Ian and Matthew were arrested for Ed's death, but they
Speaker 2: were both released by the Meta Tripolitan police with no
Speaker 2: further investigation into them. The police called their statements non suspicious.
Speaker 2: After the police received the coroner's report that Ed died
Speaker 2: from the drugs and the alcohol in his system, it
Speaker 2: didn't matter to the police that there were discrepancies in
Speaker 2: both of the men's stories. Ian had said he was
Speaker 2: just going to give Matthew a spiritual reading and when
Speaker 2: Matthew and Ed arrived, he just watched TV. Matthew had
Speaker 2: said that they all did drugs and then he had
Speaker 2: sex with Ed in the shower while Matthew pleasured himself.
Speaker 2: Ian and Matthew had known each other from their church,
Speaker 2: and they had kept their relationship a secret until now.
Speaker 2: And the discrepancies and the men's story and the police
Speaker 2: releasing the men, saying that their stories were non suspicious.
Speaker 2: This was just the tip of it all for a
Speaker 2: very botched and clearly apathetic approach roach into this case
Speaker 2: by the Metropolitan Police. Five days after Ed's death, crucial
Speaker 2: evidence in the case began disappearing from the Metropolitan Police's possession.
Speaker 2: First was CCTV footage of the night, footage that could
Speaker 2: have shown Ed's staggering and drunk, proving that he was
Speaker 2: in no shape to give consent to anyone for anything,
Speaker 2: not for sex and not for drugs. Crucial blood samples
Speaker 2: from both Ian and Matthew were suddenly lost. Many items
Speaker 2: from the hotel room taken as evidence, such as a
Speaker 2: lampshade with a strange orm stain, sheets, towels, drinking glasses.
Speaker 2: They all vanished, and then three months later more evidence
Speaker 2: would disappear from a supposedly secure evidence locker. Data from
Speaker 2: Ed's phone and computer, a voicemail he had sent just
Speaker 2: before his death to his grandmother all gone. Metropolitan Police officers,
Speaker 2: when speaking of the case, were fixated on the fact
Speaker 2: Ed was gay. They called him a rent boy, They
Speaker 2: called him a male prostitute. They said things like gay
Speaker 2: men have trays of drugs. They all but came out
Speaker 2: and said because Ed was a fag, he deserved what
Speaker 2: happened to him. The police painted a picture that not
Speaker 2: only Ed was gay and a rent boy, but Ed
Speaker 2: was a drug dealer too. This police force has known
Speaker 2: history of being homophobic, and they have had at least
Speaker 2: twenty seven reports filed against them in recent years just
Speaker 2: for their homophobic ways of handling cases that involved the
Speaker 2: LGBTQ community as victims. The IOPC, which stands for Independent
Speaker 2: Office for Police Conduct, launched and invests investigation into the
Speaker 2: bias filled police thanks in due to Ed's family. The
Speaker 2: investigation began this month on March eighteenth. While the investigation
Speaker 2: is still in its very early phases, hopefully something will
Speaker 2: come of it. More training or firings of these homophobic
Speaker 2: officers will occur, although too little, too late. In January
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, Commander Stephen Kleiman of the Metropolitan Police
Speaker 2: issued a formal apology to Ed's family, admitting that the
Speaker 2: investigation did not meet the high standards we expect, though
Speaker 2: the force maintains that there was no third party involvement.
Speaker 2: That's kind of a half ass apology for their incompetency.
Speaker 2: If you ask me, no third party involvement. That must
Speaker 2: mean the idiots who work under him are the ones
Speaker 2: who lost all the evidence. In the case, I'd fire
Speaker 2: his sorry, but first rest in power ed. I love
Speaker 2: you warriors. You matter very much. Remember it's not a
Speaker 2: crime to be gay or to live your truth, unless
Speaker 2: you're a murderer.